Texture2D.LoadImage

Parameters

Returns

bool Returns true if the data can be loaded, false otherwise.

Description

Loads PNG/JPG image byte array into a texture.

This function replaces texture contents with new image data. After LoadImage, texture size and format might change. JPG files are loaded into RGB24 format, PNG files are loaded into ARGB32 format. If texture format before calling LoadImage is DXT1 or DXT5, then the loaded image will be DXT-compressed (into DXT1 for JPG images and DXT5 for PNG images). If the platform is not able to perform runtime compression then false will be returned.

Texture will be uploaded to the GPU automatically; there's no need to call Apply.

#pragma strict
public var imageAsset: TextAsset;
public function Start() {
	// LoadImage will replace with with incoming image size.
	var tex: Texture2D = new Texture2D(2, 2);
	tex.LoadImage(imageAsset.bytes);
	GetComponent.<Renderer>().material.mainTexture = tex;
}

using UnityEngine;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
    // Load a .jpg or .png file by adding .bytes extensions to the file
    // and dragging it on the imageAsset variable.
    public TextAsset imageAsset;
    public void Start() {
        // Create a texture. Texture size does not matter, since
        // LoadImage will replace with with incoming image size.
        Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(2, 2);
        tex.LoadImage(imageAsset.bytes);
        GetComponent<Renderer>().material.mainTexture = tex;
    }
}

See Also: EncodeToPNG, EncodeToJPG, LoadRawTextureData functions.

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using UnityEngine;

public class ExampleScript : MonoBehaviour {

	public void Start () {
		// Create a texture. Texture size does not matter, since
		// LoadImage will replace with with incoming image size.
		Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(2, 2);
		// A small 64x64 Unity logo encoded into a PNG.
		byte[] pngBytes = new byte[] {
			0x89,0x50,0x4E,0x47,0x0D,0x0A,0x1A,0x0A,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0D,0x49,0x48,0x44,0x52,
			0x00,0x00,0x00,0x40,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x40,0x08,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x8F,0x02,0x2E,
			0x02,0x00,0x00,0x01,0x57,0x49,0x44,0x41,0x54,0x78,0x01,0xA5,0x57,0xD1,0xAD,0xC4,
			0x30,0x08,0x83,0x81,0x32,0x4A,0x66,0xC9,0x36,0x99,0x85,0x45,0xBC,0x4E,0x74,0xBD,
			0x8F,0x9E,0x5B,0xD4,0xE8,0xF1,0x6A,0x7F,0xDD,0x29,0xB2,0x55,0x0C,0x24,0x60,0xEB,
			0x0D,0x30,0xE7,0xF9,0xF3,0x85,0x40,0x74,0x3F,0xF0,0x52,0x00,0xC3,0x0F,0xBC,0x14,
			0xC0,0xF4,0x0B,0xF0,0x3F,0x01,0x44,0xF3,0x3B,0x3A,0x05,0x8A,0x41,0x67,0x14,0x05,
			0x18,0x74,0x06,0x4A,0x02,0xBE,0x47,0x54,0x04,0x86,0xEF,0xD1,0x0A,0x02,0xF0,0x84,
			0xD9,0x9D,0x28,0x08,0xDC,0x9C,0x1F,0x48,0x21,0xE1,0x4F,0x01,0xDC,0xC9,0x07,0xC2,
			0x2F,0x98,0x49,0x60,0xE7,0x60,0xC7,0xCE,0xD3,0x9D,0x00,0x22,0x02,0x07,0xFA,0x41,
			0x8E,0x27,0x4F,0x31,0x37,0x02,0xF9,0xC3,0xF1,0x7C,0xD2,0x16,0x2E,0xE7,0xB6,0xE5,
			0xB7,0x9D,0xA7,0xBF,0x50,0x06,0x05,0x4A,0x7C,0xD0,0x3B,0x4A,0x2D,0x2B,0xF3,0x97,
			0x93,0x35,0x77,0x02,0xB8,0x3A,0x9C,0x30,0x2F,0x81,0x83,0xD5,0x6C,0x55,0xFE,0xBA,
			0x7D,0x19,0x5B,0xDA,0xAA,0xFC,0xCE,0x0F,0xE0,0xBF,0x53,0xA0,0xC0,0x07,0x8D,0xFF,
			0x82,0x89,0xB4,0x1A,0x7F,0xE5,0xA3,0x5F,0x46,0xAC,0xC6,0x0F,0xBA,0x96,0x1C,0xB1,
			0x12,0x7F,0xE5,0x33,0x26,0xD2,0x4A,0xFC,0x41,0x07,0xB3,0x09,0x56,0xE1,0xE3,0xA1,
			0xB8,0xCE,0x3C,0x5A,0x81,0xBF,0xDA,0x43,0x73,0x75,0xA6,0x71,0xDB,0x7F,0x0F,0x29,
			0x24,0x82,0x95,0x08,0xAF,0x21,0xC9,0x9E,0xBD,0x50,0xE6,0x47,0x12,0x38,0xEF,0x03,
			0x78,0x11,0x2B,0x61,0xB4,0xA5,0x0B,0xE8,0x21,0xE8,0x26,0xEA,0x69,0xAC,0x17,0x12,
			0x0F,0x73,0x21,0x29,0xA5,0x2C,0x37,0x93,0xDE,0xCE,0xFA,0x85,0xA2,0x5F,0x69,0xFA,
			0xA5,0xAA,0x5F,0xEB,0xFA,0xC3,0xA2,0x3F,0x6D,0xFA,0xE3,0xAA,0x3F,0xEF,0xFA,0x80,
			0xA1,0x8F,0x38,0x04,0xE2,0x8B,0xD7,0x43,0x96,0x3E,0xE6,0xE9,0x83,0x26,0xE1,0xC2,
			0xA8,0x2B,0x0C,0xDB,0xC2,0xB8,0x2F,0x2C,0x1C,0xC2,0xCA,0x23,0x2D,0x5D,0xFA,0xDA,
			0xA7,0x2F,0x9E,0xFA,0xEA,0xAB,0x2F,0xDF,0xF2,0xFA,0xFF,0x01,0x1A,0x18,0x53,0x83,
			0xC1,0x4E,0x14,0x1B,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x49,0x45,0x4E,0x44,0xAE,0x42,0x60,0x82,
		};
		// Load data into the texture.
		tex.LoadImage(pngBytes);
		// Assign texture to renderer's material.
		GetComponent<Renderer>().material.mainTexture = tex;
	}
}